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Given information

We re given that:-

The uniform aluminum pole is long and has a mass . The mass of the traffic light is .

Formula used:

For equilibrium:

 

Here, is the applied force and represents its corresponding distance from the rotational axis.

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

 

The forces in the  and  directions, and since the system is static, these sums are zero,

In which case,

 

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